Forrest Gump Timeline

By Kingjunova

  • Forrest Hip Dancing with Elvis: (January 1, 1952)

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  • Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” released

  • All-American Team meets President John F. Kennedy (March 2,1963)

  • Desegregation of University of Alabama

  • President Kennedy assassinated

  • Forrest enters the Vietnam War - (January 1, 1966)

  • Forrest saves the members of his platoon in battle - (January 1, 1967)

  • Forrest discovers ping-pong - (January 1, 1968)

  • Forrest receives Medal of Honor and meets President Lyndon B. Johnson - (July 1, 1968)

  • United States Lands On the Moon

  • Forrest goes to China

  • John Lennon’s song, “Imagine” is released

  • John Lennon’s first appearance on the Dick Cavett Talk show

  • Date of the Watergate break in (also the date Forrest meets President Nixon

  • Birth of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. (March 1, 1974)

  • Date Hurricane Carmen struck Louisiana

  • Date of Nixon’s resignation

  • What date did Forrest start running? (Date that President Carter collapsed of heatexhaustion.)

  • Date of the first known outbreak of AIDS

  • Forrest receives Jenny’s letter the same day President Reagan is attacked

  • Jenny dies - (March 22 1982)

  • Apple Computer goes public (would be the first date Lieutenant Dan could have investedForrest's money in Apple)